This week we have been experimenting with a range of art techniques. We have been printing heart patterns for Valentine’s Day with cardboard tubes and using our observational skills to draw a bouquet of flowers using patterns.
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Nursery’s Musicians
This week in music we have been listening to the sounds of instruments and working with our friends to practise playing the instruments. We have learned how to play them loud, quiet, slow and fast and been practising using our fancy vocabulary pitch, tempo and dynamics to describe how we are playing the instruments!
Reception exploring the woods
Reception have had a fantastic afternoon exploring in the woods. We made our own muddy puddle so that we could investigate muddy wellie and hand prints. We made some great patterns. We also worked together carrying large branches to make dens, enjoyed climbing in the trees and just enjoyed being out in out lovely woodland […]
Being thankful in Reception
This week we have been learning about how Christians say thank you to God. We learned a song called Thank you Lord for this new day, which we really enjoyed singing. We also remembered how we celebrated Harvest in the Autumn term and how we collected food for the food bank. We then thought very […]
Nursery explore number 2
This week we have been finding out about number 2, we have enjoyed listening to songs, rhymes and stories about number 2 and then finding lots of different ways of showing 2, using objects in the classroom, our bodies and print in the environment!
Chinese New Year in Nursery
This week we have been learning about the Chinese New Year, we have looked at where China is on the world map and thought about how their celebrations are similar to ours in the UK. We have been making Chinese lanterns, practising to paint Chinese numbers and joining in with a Chinese dragon dance!
Mathematicians in Reception
Reception have been working very hard this week to discover how many different ways that they could make 5. We used the song ‘Five Little Speckled Frogs’ as a starting point and manged to find lots of different ways. To challenge ourselves, we hid some of the frogs in the deep pond to see if […]
Nursery’s Doctors Surgery
This week we have been learning about Doctors. We read the story ‘Going to the Doctor’ and talked about when we have been to the doctors. We thought about when we have been poorly and what the doctor did to make us better. We have had lots of patients visiting our surgery this week and […]
Gymnastic sequences in Reception
This term, Reception are building a sequence using a range of gymnastics movements. This week they have put together a sequence that includes a jump, roll and straddle. Well done Reception.
Nursery’s Emergency!
This week the children have been learning about the Emergency Services and practising what to do in an emergency. When we visited the woods we made up our own emergency stories and pretended to ring 999, telling them of the emergency and where we were. Well done Nursery !